David Teniers the Younger ( December 15, 1610 - April 25, 1690), Flemish artist was the more celebrated son of David Teniers the Elder, almost ranking in celebrity with Rubens and Van Dyck, was born in Antwerp.

Teniers nevertheless remained in high favor with the new governor-general, Don Juan, a natural son of Philip IV.

Although van Tilborgh, who was a scholar of Teniers in Brussels, followed his style with some success, and later painters often excelled in figure-painting on a small scale, Teniers cannot be said to have formed a school.

Teniers made many of the small preparatory painted copies, prior to engraving (there are some in the Royal Collection and several in the Courtauld Institute Galleries, London), and oversaw the etchings for the catalogue.

Teniers was a man of considerable wealth, purchasing a country estate in 1662 and finally being ennobled in 1680.

Teniers the elder was the son of a mercer, Julian Teniers, and was brought up and trained by his elder brother.

The girl was not yet seventeen; she bore Teniers five children and died in 1656.

Teniers is said to have received a fortune with each wife, and to have made a great deal of money from the sale of his pictures.

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Teniers painted several other versions of this theme during the course of his career, including works in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, and the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva.

The younger Teniers became a master in the Antwerp guild in 1632/33, and was elected dean in 1645/6.

Teniers received his first commission from Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, governor of the Netherlands, in 1647; four years later he was appointed court painter and director of the Archduke's painting collection.

David Teniers the Younger, born in Antwerp in 1610, continued a strong tradition of genre painting that so aptly characterized Flemish art of the 17th century.

Teniers painted numerous images of country doctors, whose "hocus-pocus" remedies were the laughing stock of modern medicine.

Teniers and his contemporaries were heavily influenced by the work of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), who excelled in portraiture, landscape, mythological, and religious painting, as well as genre painting.

Teniers nevertheless remained in high favour with the new governor-general, Don Juan, a natural son of Philip IV.

Teniers died in Brussels on the 25th of April 169o.

Although van Tilborgh, who was a scholar of Teniers in Brussels, followed his style with some success, and later painters often ex-celled in figure-painting on a small scale, Teniers cannot be said to have formed a school.

In 1595 David Teniers the Elder was Juliaen Teniers pupil, his elder brother, a landscape painter in Joos de Momper's style, in 1606 he became master in the Guild of St. Luke in Antwerp, therefore his stay in Italy dates to around 1600-1606, in the same period as Rubens.

He was inspired mainly by the figures of Elsheimer, the painting that remarks this characteristic is "The adoration of Magi" (Aix-la-Chapelle, Suermondt Museum) that is represented in a landscape with important roman ruins.

David Teniers the Elder is the father of David Teniers the Younger (Antwerp 1610-Brusseles 1690) one of the most famous Flemish genre painter of the 17th century.

The artists of Flanders and Holland were the first in Europe to fully appreciate the possibilities provided by everyday life of their contemporaries for artistic subject, whether uncomplicated family scenes, gatherings in taverns, visits to the church, peasant holidays, or the daily life of cityfolk.

The canvases displayed in Ulan-Ude demonstrate the basic contours of Teniers' art and enable the visitor to appreciate the multifaceted nature of his talent as well as the specific aspects of his style.

Teniers often portrayed monkeys to poke fun at the activities of men.

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In any case it is her respectable appearance that belies her sinful pact with the devil, which is precisely the point.

David Teniers the Younger was the son of Antwerp painter, David Teniers the Elder.

Tremendously popular during his lifetime, Teniers was unable to satisfy all collectors and dealers who wanted his works.

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David Teniers II's small copies in oil afer the Italian pictures of his patron, the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, form the primary focus of this paper.

Secondly, the distinctive technique and style of the copies, which are consistently identifiable with Teniers rather than referring to his Italian models, are difficult to explain exclusively as a means of producing transparent reproductions.

The engagement here is with Italy, and my paper argues that the sketch-like character of the copies places Teniers not in the realm of mechanical reproduction but amongst the ambitious northern painters for whom a personal dialogue with this locus of authority was a way of defining their own art.

David Teniers the Younger was born in 1610, the oldest son of the painter of the same name.

In 1645—46 Teniers served as dean of the St. Luke guild, and in 1647 he worked for the governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Archduke Leopold Wilhelm.

Appointed court painter in 1651, Teniers moved from Antwerp to Brussels, where his tasks included overseeing and expanding the archduke’s collection of paintings, producing gallery pictures that documented the scope of the collection, and also preparing an illustrated catalogue of the works.

The would-be seller of the picture is the elder Teniers — the sketcher is his abler and more famous son, David Teniers, the second of the four painters who bore that name.

Legend relates that at one time in their careers, father and son were in the habit of thus disposing of their work.

The picture of the two Teniers is the work of George Adolphus Storey, A. A., who was born in London in 1834, and studied at the Royal Academy schools.

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 David Teniers, the son of the painter David Teniers the Elder, was born in Antwerp in 1610.

Teniers himself is represented as the figure on the far left.

Initially influenced by Adriaen Brouwer, Teniers abandoned his predecessor's truculent, anecdotal genre around the time of his death in 1638, going on to develop a much more refined style, vigorous, delicate, and full of verve, as well as a brilliant and clever painting technique distinguished by a very light brush and subtle coloring.

As a painter of landscapes, genre scenes and still-lifes, David Teniers the Younger is one of the most popular artists of the Flemish school of the 17th century.

Initially influenced by Adriaen Brouwer, Teniers abandoned his predecessor's truculent, anecdotal genre around the time of his death in 1638, going on to develop a much more refined style, vigorous, delicate, and full of verve, as well as a brilliant and clever painting technique distinguished by a very light brush and subtle colouring.

The diagonal composition divides the painting into two, with a dark and less developed part to the left contrasting with the well-lit part to the right where the festivities are taking place in front of a series of houses.

Born into a family of artists in Antwerp, Teniers later settled in Brussels.

Teniers was married to the daughter of the renowned painter, Jan Breughel.

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David Teniers the Younger was born in Antwerp in 1610, the eldest son of David Teniers I the Older (1582-1649) of whom he was his pupil.

After 1647, the Grand Duke Leopold, governor of the Low Counties, became Teniers’ patron and attached him to his court as an official painter and also as a chamberlain and curator of his art gallery.

Teniers was also much copied, notably by his pupils such as David Ryckaert III, Thomas Apshoven, Gillis van Tilborch, Matthys van Helmont, François Duchatel, Abraham and David Teniers III, Gillis van Bolder or Jan de Froey.

In 1651 Teniers was appointed court painter and curator of the Archduke's gallery.

In this capacity it is very likely that he was charged with acquiring in England the Italian paintings of the illustrious Hamilton collection and those of King Charles I, as it is certain that he undertook a trip across the channel in the same year.

These copies were to serve as models for the engravings illustrating the Theatrum pictorium Davidis Teniers..., a monumental collection published at Antwerp in 1660.

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David Teniers was the most famous 17th-century painter of peasant life, popular in his own lifetime and during the 18th century, especially in France.

Teniers was born in Antwerp and probably trained by his father, David Teniers the Elder.

Having received his first training in the painter's art from his brother Juliaen, he studied under Rubens in Antwerp, and subsequently under Elsheimer in Rome ; he became a member of the Antwerp gild of painters in 1606.

There is a large painting by the elder Teniers at St Paul's church in Antwerp, representing the Works of Charity.

At the Vienna Gallery are four landscapes painted by Teniers under the influence of Elsheimer, and four small mythological subjects, among them Vertumnus and Pomona, and Juno, Jupiter and Io.

Prolific Flemish painter of the Baroque period known for his genre scenes of peasant life.

Teniers was also court painter to Don John of Austria, who succeeded the Archduke as regent in 1656, and was one of the prime movers in the foundation of the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts (1663) and subsequently the Academy in Antwerp (1665).

Teniers' son, also named David (1638-85), often imitated his father's work.

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Baptised on 15 December 1610 in Antwerp where he studied under his father, the obscure David Teniers I. His earlier works also suggest the influence of Brouwer.

He became a master in the Antwerp guild in 1632/3 and was dean in 1645/6.